Kathleen Willey, a Democrat activist who with her husband, Ed, founded Virginians for Clinton and helped send Bill and Hillary to the White House in 1992, is blasting Hillary Clintons recent claim that she and the president left the White House in 2000 dead broke.

For her to say dead broke. I can tell you what it is to be dead broke and owing money, she told WND in an interview.

Hillary Clinton, who has walked back her claim, told ABCs Diane Sawyer she and her husband came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt.

We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for the houses, for Chelseas education, she said. You know, it was not easy.

The Washington Posts Michelle Singletary, however, pointed out that since the Clintons left the White House, they have been paid more than $100 million over 14 years. And when they left the White House, not only was Bill Clinton guaranteed a vast pension, but Hillary Clinton was not far away from a salary as U.S. senator. The houses Hillary Clinton mentioned were multi-million dollar mansions.

I don’t know whether Hillary’s claim of being broke is accurate or not.

But I do know it’s quite possible. Bill and Hill incurred huge legal bills to defend themselves against the various investigations launched against them by their political enemies. Those ran into many millions of dollars, though some was paid by fundraising.

Now note that I’m not saying those investigations were not warranted. I’m merely pointing out that the “other side” was tapped into the bottomless well of government funds.

When the government goes after somebody, unless he is rich in the billionaire sense, it will eventually bankrupt him. All I’m saying is that this ability of those in control of government resources to investigate at government expense, while requiring the person under investigtion to provide legal defense at his own expense, is an awesome power and very prone to possible abuse.

Investigate a guy long enough, and he’s financially destroyed, at no cost to you.

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posted on 06/14/2014 9:55:56 AM PDT
by Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)

Dead broke? I've driven through lilly-white Chappaqua and drove by their house not long after they bought it.From my vantage point everything I saw that day screamed “one percent”...and that was even before I knew that Cappapaqua was about 1% minority.

Kathleen Willey, a Democrat activist who with her husband, Ed, founded Virginians for Clinton and helped send Bill and Hillary to the White House in 1992, is blasting [Hitlery]s recent claim ... Clinton, who has walked back her claim, told ABCs Diane Sawyer she and her husband came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt. ... Washington Posts Michelle Singletary... pointed out that since the Clintons left the White House, they have been paid more than $100 million... not only was Bill Clinton guaranteed a vast pension, but Hillary Clinton was not far away from a salary as U.S. senator. The houses Hillary Clinton mentioned were multi-million dollar mansions.

Is it possible that the media dont want the Clintons back in the White House???

The hard-left media, which is most of the mainstream media, definitely don't want her in the White House.

There are still the sloppy traditionalists at the NYT and Washington Post who seem to feel she deserves her four or eight years---the affirmative action idiot Eugene Robinson, premier columnist at the Post, is one example.

But the more radical Democrats, epitomized by MSNBC's Mika Brzenzki, loathe the graceless, fat-ankled old school opportunism of Hillary and Bill and will settle for nothing less than another hardcore redistributionist like Mike Malloy or especially Elizabeth Warren.

THAT is why you are seeing these ambushes by Sawyer, NPR's Terry Gross, et al.....and Mika herself has been simply frothing and clawing at Hillary for a couple weeks now on the Morning Joe show.

Just last month Time.com published a piece called The Ten Richest Towns In America.At #5 was Zip Code 10514,Chappaqua,NY.The piece also notes that 63.7% of households in that zip code make more than $150k a year.

I don’t claim they WERE broke, merely that they had a lot of expenses and it was possible.

I do find it appalling that a member of the political class can seriously contend that having some difficulty immediately paying for two mansions constitutes extreme financial hardship.

30 years ago I was in the condition mentioned above, where at times I quite literally didn’t have food for my family. I did some work for a lady who complained bitterly about the awful economy and the great financial hardship she was suffering.

Her definition of great financial hardship: She was only going to be able to spend one month in Europe that year, instead of her usual two.

It was a little difficult for me to summon up great sympathy.

I think it would do anybody who aspires to political power in this country to live a year or two in real financial hardship.

What our upper crust thinks of as base minimum lifestyle is wildly distorted. The guy who killed those people in Santa Barbara cited his having to drive an entry level Mercedes as an example of the social and financial humiliation he had to endure, and that justified his rampage.

If the Clintons were really broke on leaving the White House, why not rent modest digs, put Chelsea in public school, and hunker down for a year while the fees rolled in?

The answer, of course, is they think they’re ENTITLED to a lavish lifestyle.

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posted on 06/14/2014 10:34:29 AM PDT
by Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)

Chappaqua is one of those “old money” towns. The prop taxes on their mansion has got to be at least $20k. Years ago while the limousine liberals who lived there pointed their fingers of self righteous indignation at the South over segregation, Jim Crow, etc. Blacks and Jews had less of a chance at joining their country clubs as the Jets have at winning a Super Bowl.

There’s a difference between being broke and being poor that I think a whole lot of people, especially liberals, just don’t get.

I’ve been so broke several times I couldn’t buy food for my family, but I’ve never been poor. If I had thought of myself as poor, I’d be expecting to be broke tomorrow and next year and five years from now. That never crossed my mind.

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posted on 06/14/2014 10:45:04 AM PDT
by Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)

Blacks and Jews had less of a chance at joining their country clubs as the Jets have at winning a Super Bowl.

For 20 years I owned a small,sturdy and cozy ranch house in an upper middle class suburb of Boston.This suburb,once pretty solidly conservative,had turned Marxist in the few years after I arrived.About ten years after I bought it my neighborhood became *very* hot and house values skyrocketed.Well,during this time a proposal was made to build a few units of "affordable" housing in a fairly small plot of open land.As you can probably guess,the locals went bat$hit."You can't do that...think of the dangers that increased traffic would cause for our children",they'd say.They were very careful not to speak their *true* minds..."think of all the unwashed minorities it will bring".

Also,if you have some free time google "Commonwealth Day School".It's a tale of the filthy racist phoniness of the brightest among us...the faculty and top administrators of Harvard University itself.In fact the student newspaper,The Harvard Crimson,did some pretty good coverage of it.The more you research this the more likely you are to puke on your keyboard.Boston Marxism at its most disgusting.

a proposal was made to build a few units of "affordable" housing in a fairly small plot of open land.As you can probably guess,the locals went bat$hit. I remember my parents telling me nobody burned crosses in the Bronx. Only real estate offices in Riverdale, Pelham Parkway, Soundview and other "good" areas that dared to show co-ops or townhouses to those "G-damned ni****s and "filthy sp*cs" as the phony libs still call them to this day.

Willey goes way back with the Clintons. While serving as a volunteer in the White House and facing financial hard times, she says she met with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office to request a paying position. But instead of getting help, she says, she was subjected to nothing short of serious sexual harassment.

Distraught, Willey fled Clintons presence, only to discover that her husband had committed suicide that same afternoon.

Come on, WND, tell it like it was: Kathleen Willey was groped in the White House by Bill Clinton. And to say that her husband "committed suicide that same afternoon" is likely a bit of a stretch, too much of a coincidence when you consider that together with the whole Clinton history of multiple suspicious deaths of people who crossed paths with them.

If the Clintons were really broke on leaving the White House, why not rent modest digs

Actually, I do believe they were in debt (due to smarmy behavior which cost them legal fees).

However, I agree with you. When someone is broke they rent a small property and work their way out of their situation. They were on the cusp of getting hundreds of thousands of pension dollars and millions from book sales. The TWO multimillion dollar properties were unseemly and an in your face move for all the little people Hillary claims she has been backing for so long.

There was an added psychological component to his creepy sexual misconduct. The women he abused often looked like a more attractive (idealized) version of Hillary (Gennifer Flowers, as an example) or a younger version of his mother (Paula Jones). That he would “take it out” and demand satisfaction from a woman who looked like his mother reflected truly deep-seated hatred issues that he must’ve harbored throughout his life.

Remember that his biological father, a travelling salesman, died just prior to his being born, and he probably was always angry about that (his stepfather was an abusive drunk). I think the man had a mess of serious psychological issues that should never have allowed him anywhere near a position of power, especially as a sexual predator and narcissistic sociopath.

I was working down at the Chicago Board Of Trade (CBOT) at that time. And this incident happened at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where they traded live stock. I had a lot of friends that worked down at the Merc. Later on I worked there for about a year. What happened to her is impossible. Not damn near impossible. Impossible. She made over $100,000 on a five lot. A five lot contract is worth $50 a penny. So she was getting in and out of her position while the market was trading up and down and she was never wrong. We’re suppose to believe that she was a novice trader and could do no wrong. Please.

Allegedly her floor broker was constantly getting her in and out of her position. And if her position would have still been a winner he would take the loss and make it look as if she still had her position. At least that’s the story I heard.

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